So i have freevo running again, this time with dfbmga, and I'm kinda dismayed to discover that some of the things that were wrong with the visual design concepts in the skins are now in fact more wrong.
It's not that they're not aesthetically pleasing, but there are some side effects that are being ignored. If you notice, most PVRs and DVD players and other devices that have interactive user interfaces often lack certain visual elements. There are good, solid reasons for that. The average television - and most people have average televisions - suffers from design limitations that the average VGA monitor doesn't. For example, on a cheap TV, when you have a bright white item on the screen, the rest of the picture pincushions out around it. A lot of the time, especially when your video signal comes from a source that wasn't designed from the ground up to display on a consumer television, there is some vertical jitter. This causes horizontal lines, and anything high contrast, to look like they're vibrating. And this is why if you look at the TiVo user interface, they're never using pure white, all their lines are shaded and blended, and the colors only have medium contrast against their neighbors. They almost never have a horizontal line drawn on anything. What you pretty much never see in a commercial UI on a television is a bright white rectangle surrounding bright white text against a dark blue background. 'cause it's hard to look at when your display isn't perfect. Sure, I plan to buy an HD set and hook it up through a DVI cable at some point, but i haven't got it yet. I wish the freevo ui didn't give me a headache, in the mean time. ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
